Chang, a thoracic surgeon for Aria Health who specializes in lung cancer patients. Add to that robotic surgery, in which a tiny robot, is inserted into a patient’s body and guided by a surgeon to remove tumors. The …

COVINGTON — When Covington resident Billie Jane Hood underwent a routine evaluation for knee replacement surgery at Piedmont Newton Hospital, the last thing she expected to hear was that she had stage IV lung …

However, much like breast, colon or many other common cancers, when lung cancer is detected as the earliest stage, it can be cured with surgery or radiation 80 percent or more of the time. So how do we advance from 17 …

These may include further imaging studies and biopsies. Treatment for lung cancer is based on the stage at diagnosis. If detected early, surgery offers the best chance of a cure and confers the best prognosis. Later …

... Society predicts that there will be about 221,200 new cases of lung cancer and 158,040 deaths. “While most early stage lung cancers can be treated successfully with surgery, once the tumor has spread beyond …

despite significant progress in lung cancer care during the first five years of the audit, very little has changed since then. Surgery offers the best chance of a cure for lung cancer patients. However, the audit shows that …

She said it's possible that the post-surgery radiation is critical to preventing the ... [Research making progress on why healthy, young non-smokers get lung cancer] Deborah M. Axelrod, a surgeon at the Laura and Isaac …

Mark A. Socinski, MD: Really optimistic, particularly if you were going to ASCO in the early 1990s in lung cancer. So, Roy… Roy S. Herbst, MD, PhD: Which I was…in those days we had chemotherapy, radiation …

The news was grim. The cancer had metastasized, spreading from his left lung to the lining around his heart. He needed surgery to remove fluid around his heart, and chemotherapy to address the cancer in the …

A study published by JAMA Surgery says that survival rates for women ... Common sites of metastasis include bone, liver and lung. With the exception of skin cancers, breast cancer is the most prevalent cancer among …